A beautiful new image has been just been captured of the recently named Manatee Nebula. The photo, taken by the Very Large Array radio telescope network in New Mexico, closely resembles the way manatees look when in one of their favorite positions, floating on their backs with their fins across their bellies. The nebula was […]
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[UPDATED! Jan. 9, 2013; “First habitable zone super Earth may have been found”, see note below] Today marked the commencement of the 221st American Astronomical Society meeting, and members of the Kepler Space Telescope team had an exciting number to share: 461. That’s the number of new candidate exoplanets found by the Kepler telescope in
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China appears to be getting ready to do further testing of its anti-satellite weaponry. The last test that they performed, the destruction of an old weather satellite, was very controversial because of the huge quantity of new space junk that it created. Space junk poses a significant risk to spacecraft and orbiting satellites, and it
Cosmic radiation, like astronauts experience when in deep-space, accelerates the development of Alzheimer’s disease, and causes associated changes in the brain, new research has found. If a new mission involving significant time spent in deep-space is undertaken, such as one to Mars, something will have to be done to address this. “Galactic cosmic radiation poses
Researchers from the University of Iowa have directly measured space turbulence in the lab for the first time. “Turbulence is not restricted to environments here on Earth, but also arises pervasively throughout the solar system and beyond, driving chaotic motions in the ionized gas, or plasma, that fills the universe,” says Gregory Howes, assistant professor
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A new lighting system is being built to help fight insomnia on the International Space Station by utilizing high-tech light-emitting diodes, replacing the fluorescent bulbs thar are currently in use. Something that remains somewhat unknown to the general republic is driving this change, around half of all the people who go to the ISS rely
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Large forest fires are visible in a newly released image from NASA and NOAA, of the Earth at night. The bright regions in the western part of Australia that are largely uninhabited, and the light seen is almost entirely from forest fires. “Away from the cities, much of the night light observed by the NASA-NOAA
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The Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched back in 1977, is getting closer and closer to exiting the solar system and entering interstellar space. It recently entered a new, somewhat unknown region at the edge of the solar system. The researchers that work with the spacecraft are of the mind that this is the last region before
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Engineers from NASA and Los Alamos National Laboratories have successfully tested a small, prototype nuclear reactor engine that may power future deep space probes. One of the primary, long-standing goals of space exploration is the development of a small/light-weight, long-lasting power source for long-term space missions. Solar panels become less practical as one ventures further
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An experimental version of an interplanetary Internet was recently used to successfully control a rover on the Earth from the International Space Station. The experiment, done by NASA and the ESA, used the Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) protocol to transfer messages and to demonstrate the technology that will eventually lead to Internet-like communications between space
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